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To: American Spirit who wrote (126100)	6/9/2008 10:47:02 PM
From: Jane4IceCream	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

You are a bona fide...... 100% USDA grade sick IDIOT from Idiotville. How can you possibly believe in Jesus Christ with the anger and lies you spew here day in and day out. You are a total embarassment to the American people, American spirit, and the freedom our fathers fought valiantly for. This is all I have to say..... Jane

To: American Spirit who wrote (126100)	6/10/2008 7:19:37 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Since you've claimed Jesus was a hate-filled communist, for you to compare Obama to him isn't very nice is it?

To: American Spirit who wrote (126100)	6/10/2008 9:21:41 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 173976

All the better if it’s on the wackiness of your ideas By Michael Graham \| Tuesday, June 10, 2008 \| bostonherald.com \| Op-Ed Photo by AP Oh, Lord it’s hard to be humble. Consider poor Barack Obama - who has been forced to repeatedly deny rumors he was found wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Sen. Obama’s supporters are so enthusiastic, expectations are so high, it must be very difficult for him to remain grounded in reality. That’s why it was such a delight last week when, having won the Democratic Party nomination, he accepted the challenge with, as he put it, “profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations.” And that profound humility was on display as Obama described the impact of his victory: “I am absolutely certain,” he said, that future generations will look back and say “this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal. This was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation.” Healing the sick, ending war, turning back the tides - all just from winning his party’s presidential nomination? Wait until he’s actually president: Free ponies for everyone! Some may say that Obama allowed himself a bit of rhetorical excess, that planet healing and tide turning are beyond the power of mortal man. But to make that argument, one must believe that Obama is a mere mortal. “Barack Obama isn’t really one of us,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford wrote on Friday. “Obama is a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who . . . can actually usher in a new way of being on this planet.” Morford, who like me writes a twice-weekly column for a major daily newspaper, can’t be dismissed as a fringe loony any more than I can. Uh, let me rephrase that . . . This isn’t some anonymous poster on a message board at the Daily Kos. Morford is a newspaper columnist arguing seriously and in print that “there’s a vast amount of positive energy swirling around that’s been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has found a new conduit, a lighting rod” in Barack Obama. And how do we harness this energy to save the world and stop the forces of darkness? First, find Indiana Jones. Second, see if he found the “crystal skulls.” For sheer entertainment value, few things can beat South Side Obama, the High Priest of Rezko Politics, offering himself as the new Moses in the land of free medical care manna from heaven. Unfortunately, embracing this fantasy means we don’t seize the humble, modest opportunities for real reform. Take Obama’s claim that we’re finally going to “provide care for the sick.” Beyond the insult to every American medical professional already hard at work, there’s a price to be paid for this fantasy. The notion of every American having identical health care, from Bill Gates to Bob the Street Bum, is simply impossible. Ask the Soviets, the Communist Chinese and everyone else who’s tried it. A more humble approach would be mandatory, catastrophic health care coverage to cover major medical crises. Most people have it already; healthy, risk-taking young people could be required to buy into the system, and this limited coverage would be so affordable that only the poorest families would need a government subsidy. A national mandatory catastrophic medical coverage plan isn’t flashy. It doesn’t hail the arrival of the Messiah, harness swirling positive energy or realign our national feng shui. It’s just a modest way to make life better for more Americans. It’s part of what politics used to be - the art of the possible. Unfortunately, Barack Obama is in the business of selling the impossible, to a crowd of people clueless enough to believe it is inevitable. Article URL: bostonherald.com